Image Processing Interface for Authenticated Ordered Screen Navigation
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Problem
In multifunction apparatuses, changing a main tab from a common tab to an individual tab makes it difficult to determine the appropriate tab to set into the selected state after starting the operation in the ordinary mode, especially when user authentication is involved.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus with a user interface and controller that manages screen display based on user authentication, ensuring that if a main tab is changed to a personal attribute, another common attribute tab is set to the selected state, maintaining appropriate screen display in the ordinary mode.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the main tab is changed from common attribute to personal attribute, then the tab can be customized for individual users, but it becomes difficult to determine which tab should be set into the selected state after starting operation in ordinary mode
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by setting a default common tab as the main tab before user authentication occurs. This ensures that when the system starts in ordinary mode, there is already a determined tab selection ready. After user authentication, the system then switches to displaying individual tabs for that user, but the preliminary setup of a default common tab ensures smooth operation transition and avoids the problem of having no determined tab selection.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the main tab attribute is changeable, then user flexibility is improved, but the system reliability in specifying the selected tab in ordinary mode deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different qualities to different tabs: common tabs have the quality of being available in ordinary mode with deterministic selection, while individual tabs have the quality of being user-specific and only available after authentication. This local differentiation allows the system to maintain reliability for common tabs while providing flexibility for individual tabs, resolving the contradiction between changeability and specification reliability.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus includes: a printer; a user interface; and a controller. In a case that the controller receives an input of authentication information of a user and that the user has logged in to the image processing apparatus based on the authentication information, the controller causes the user interface to display one screen associated with the user logged in to the image processing apparatus. The one screen is one of a plurality of ordered screens and is neither a top screen nor a last screen of the plurality of ordered screens. The one screen is displayed on the user interface in a state of being switchable to a previous screen previous to the one screen and a next screen next to the one screen.